Hi,

I'm kind of struggling with the whole encoding thing as have a csv file that contains, when viewed in MS Outlook, the character(s) £ representing the £ sign.

I suppose what I don't know, is what character set this is, and what character set Outlook is using.

I am trying to use the file with the following code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use encoding 'utf8';
use Text::CSV;
use strict;
use warnings;

my @survey;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new ( { binary => 1 } ) or die "Cannot use CSV: "
+ .Text::CSV->error_diag ();

open my $fh, "<:encoding(utf8)", "../export.csv" or die &error_alert;

while ( my $row = $csv->getline( $fh ) ) {
      
     my $feedback = $row->[1];
          
     push @survey, $feedback;
 
}

close $fh;

open (my $output, ">:encoding(utf8)", "../surveydata.csv") or die &err
+or_alert;

shift @survey;

foreach my $item (@survey) {
    
my @data = split /\t/, $item;

my $lastitem = pop @data;

chomp $lastitem;

$lastitem =~ s/"//g;

    foreach my $col (@data) {

$col =~ s/"//g;

print $output "\"$col\"\,";
        
    }

print $output "\"$lastitem\"\n";

};

close $output;
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Am I right in thinking that I need to find the correct character set for the import - i.e. If the csv file contains the odd character, it is probably not utf8 and needs to be called in with the right character set?

Thanks for looking at this

MorayJ